The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-10-27
AS AN ENGLISHMAN.
TIE EFFORTS YOUNG AMERICA
MAKES TO POSE AS A BRlTON.

A Long and Tedious Process of Prepare
tion-The English" Method of Speech.
Oddities of Dress-A Distinctive Walk.
The Eyeglass. . ..
There is large number of young men
in these free states whose chief object in
life is to be taken for Englishmen.
The youth who wants to pass as an
Englishman is obliged to Put himself
through a long and tedious process of
preparation. He usually commences with
study of the English method of
speech. The first task is to learn how to
talk 'away down in the chest" and the
phrase chosen to experiment upon is, in.
rariably, ''By Jove." When he can say
this with the proper accent he next ven
lures upon "You don't say sop He then
passes on to such sentences as 'How
awfully jolly. 1 cawn't believe it, you
know" and so on.
If You live in the same house with him
you can hear him up to late hour Of tho
night repeating over and over such words
as ''dawncc," ''cawn't," ''pawth,n
''chawnce," ''rathaw," ''fathaw' and
cav" Sometimes he will allow his
voice to slide up while he says ''dcmmit"
The word that you will hear him use
oftenest is lawfully" He will tell you
that the flower is lawfully nice," that the
policeman is lawfully kwoss," that his
tea is lawfully hot, )" and that Belle Jones
is lawfully jolly"
He would almost die for shame should
he make such vulgar blunder as to sew
''pants." The word he uses is trousers
''breeches," or "bags." He will tell you
conlidentially, II pwefew to say bags; it's
awfully English; the best fellows eli say
it, you know" In this way does tho
young citizen proceed to Auglicico him
self
But you can be English In NOR, ways
than i'll speech Dress oftener proclaims
the American Englishman than anything
else. Any afternoon about this time of
year you may see dozens of American
Englishmen on Fifth avenue or in the
neighborhood of the Hoffman house, the
Brunswick, or Fifth Avenue hotel. They
are pretty sure to be dressed in large pat
tern checks, to carry enormous canes, and
to have their trousers turned up ct the
legs. a pair of trousers turned up at the
legs is the most English sight that you
can see.
WITH TROUSERS TURNED UP.
know young American Englishman
who runs to the window every morning
on rising to see If he will have an oppor-
tunity Of turning his trousers legs up. II
the day looks fine he comes from the
window with disappointed air and says,
''Too bad, by Jove. 1t isn't going to
vain afteh ALL" Once he has become q
thorough Englishman, however, he will
walk through Broadway the sunniest day
in the year with his trousers turned up.
Tt,a II IF ho IT,
is also very distinctive. 1t is not, strictly.
speaking, walk at all, but q stride.
The feet are kept well apart and the toes
are turned slightly in as if the walker
I wore spurs. The left arm Is curved and
is permitted to swing but very little.
| The cane Is carried perpendicularly and
the point is brought upon the ground
almost three feet In front of the walker.
1t is not good form to throw the chest too
prominently forward, but you will notice
graceful droop of the shoulders.
The single eye glass is nearly an abso-
/ lutte necessity, and the American English
man uses it in public just as soon as he
can get it into his eye without opening his
mouth. Several young gentlemen of my
acquaintance have seriously injured their
eyes by using strong eye glasses when
their sight was good. But injury to one g
eye Is u silal penalty 10 pay Tor such q
| fashionable and attractive practice. "By
| jove, Chawley," said one young gentle
man, II would wawthaw endangaw the
total sight of one eye than suwwendaw the
privilege of weaving the glass. Q its
vewy English"
But the pillow Of the young swell is not
without thorns, for his father is very often
blunt spoken, honest man whose gram
mar and pronunciation are none too good.
eff fathaw would only altaw his speech o
twife would give half my allowance.
He would nevvaw, nevvaw pass for On
Englishman.n This is the sad wall of
many young gentleman in the city Of
/ New York and through this country
George Salisbury in The Epoch.